The special theme of the 27th edition of CAiSE is Creativity, Ability and Integrity in information Systems Engineering. Capacity to develop new products and services, and to explore new markets while improving product quality and reducing production cost and time are of vital importance for organizations today. Capabilities to support the alignment with new business models must be engineered to be actually and appropriately implemented in often adaptive information systems. Information systems play a strategic role at the very core of organizations fostering such capacities. Thus, for this 9th edition, the key theme of BUSITAL will be Business/IT Alignment engineering capabilities for business models innovation.

Important dates

Submission deadline: 10th February 2015

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MONDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2015

Notification of acceptance: 10th March 2015

Camera-Ready copy due: 25th March 2015

Workshop: 8th June 2015

Topics

We strongly encourage the publications reporting a synergy of innovative research and best practices. We encourage the original contributions exploring the challenges and solutions related to maintenance and validation of business-IT alignment, as well as industrial case studies illustrating these challenges and solutions. The topics are among but not limited to:

The accepted papers will be published in Springer LNBIP volume proceedings together with the other CAiSE’15 workshops. Thus, in order to ensure a timely and smooth publication process we would kindly ask you to follow the following instructions while submitting your paper. The submitted manuscripts should comply with he Springer LNBIP formatting rules. To prepare your initial submission, please follow the Author Instructions at Springer. Please make sure to use the full names of all contributing authors in the paper (first name(s) and surname). Please make sure that the figures are legible also when printed in black and white. Colored figures will only appear in the online version of the proceedings.